By way of explanation

First, by way of explanation: the previous post was the first few lines of Wallace Stevens' Sunday Morning. It's a favourite of mine, despite (or even because of) its complete self-indulgence. Despite my convulted agnosticism, I've got a lot of time for 'the holy hush of ancient sacrifice'. Nonetheless, it's also important to relish in indulgent pleasure at times. After all, as Kingsley Amis put it: 'nice things are nicer than nasty ones'. And so, I'd like to celebrate 'the complacencies of the peignoir', sitting feet up with a book of poetry, for the sheer pleasure of it.

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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
and the green freedom of a cockatoo
upon a rug, mingle to dissipate
the holy hush of ancient sacrifice.